On the Redundancy of Succinct Data Structures

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Golynski;Rajeev Raman;S. Srinivasa Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc.,;Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK;MADALGO, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '08 Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The redundancyof a succinct data structure is the difference between the space it uses and the appropriate information-theoretic lower bound. We consider the problem of representing binary sequences and strings succinctly using small redundancy. We improve the redundancy required to support the important operations of rankand selectefficiently for binary sequences and for strings over small alphabets. We also show optimal density-sensitiveupper and lower bounds on the redundancy for systematicencodings of binary sequences.